From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 19 08:21:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA07345 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 08:21:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA07340 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 08:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA26892 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 17:20:43 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id RAA15541 for hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 17:20:20 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.4/keltia-uucp-2.9) id RAA21300; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 17:10:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 17:10:31 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: usr.sbin/ppp: reopen ppp.log on SIGUSR1? References: <199701191515.HAA12852@squirrel.tgsoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58.1-8,11-15 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2925 In-Reply-To: <199701191515.HAA12852@squirrel.tgsoft.com>; from mark thompson on Jan 19, 1997 07:15:16 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to mark thompson: > Well, this may be ignorance talking, but i thought that daemons that did > logging were supposed to close/open their logfiles regularly (every > message?) so that they automatically get the right one after > rotation. Is this not so? syslogd(8) keeps all the files open all the time. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #36: Mon Jan 13 21:43:35 CET 1997